Thousands of Greeks braved rainy weather to line the streets of Athens for National Day commemorations.<br /><br /> March 25 marks the start of Greece’s 1821 uprising against the Ottoman Empire.<br /><br /> The main event, as every year, was the military parade, during which tanks rolled through the streets of the Greek capital and jets and helicopters flew overhead.<br /><br /> Over the past three years National Day celebrations have at times turned into intense anti-austerity protests.<br /><br /> But, as euronews correspondent Stamatis Giannisis reported, “the new left-wing government is trying to change that – to turn such occasions into demonstrations national unity.”<br /><br /> There was less security than last year and the public was allowed greater access to the parade.<br /><br /> “We need to feel like free people, free Greeks,” one spectator told euronews, “to preserve our pride and our dignity.”<br /><br /> Another said: “We must draw inspiration from our ancestors, they sacrificed themselves for us.”<br /><br /> Besides the military parade, there were
